NEW
APPOINTMENTS

 

      

SUSAN McCASLIN

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Susn McCaslin joins us ina

full-time, permanent capacity
after serving in a two-year tem-
porary position as instructor of
English and composition at
Douglas College. She did her un-
dergraduate work at the Univer-
sity of Washington, and obtained
a Masters in English at S.F.U., and
a doctorate at U.B.C. in 1984. Her
specialty is Romantic and
modern British poetry, and she is
herself a published poet in West
Coast Review, the Malahat, Bel-
lowing Arts and the White Wall
Review. Her varied teaching ex-
perience as T.A. and sessional in-
structor at various institutions in
the Lower Mainland has
developed in her a keen en-
thusiasm for teaching at the col-
lege level. Susan is currently
living in Port Moody with her
husband and 4-month-old
daughter.

 

 

 

 

 

 

LYNN POWER

ynn Power took up her posi-

tion as Secretary to the Dean
of Academics and the Dean of Ap-
plied Programs in late July.
Before joining Douglas College
she spent 11 years with the
government of Prince Edward Is-
land as an Administrative Assis-
tant in the Department of Health
& Social Services. Lynn has held
a number of secretarial /ad-
ministrative positions in govern-
ment and in private industry, in
eastern Canada and in the U.K.
Lynn moved to British Columbia
in 1986 and is now a resident of
North Delta.

 

 

 

 

 

 

SUSAN WASSERMAN

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perience was as a sessional lec-
turer for two years at U.B.C.,
where she obtained a B.A. and
M.A. in English. From 1981 to
the present she continucd to
teach at U.B.C. on a part-time
basis while working intermittent-
ly at Kwantlen College and here
at Douglas College, teaching a
varicty of literature and composi-
tion courses.

 
  

Susan has also started audition-
ing for T.V., beginning with the
T.V. staple - the commercial. She
says that after surviving several
auditions, she has’so far only a
brief appearance for Gatorade to
her credit.

When not at the College or
going to auditions, Susan spends
time with her four-year-old
daughter, Kelsey and even more
time trying to keep her one-year-
old son Brodie from taking apart
their house picce by picce.

Susan says her interests are
eclectic, but one ambition per-
sists: to learn to play the
piano....well.

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